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The Pebble smartwatch can display way more than just text and email notifications now.

Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

The Pebble smartwatch, in its first major update since it began shipping early this year, is gaining a slew of new notifications today thanks to an updated SDK and integration with iOS 7. Now, any banner notifications you get on your iPhone home screen can show up on your Pebble, too.

Previously, Pebble's functionality was pretty limited: You could get notifications for text messages, calls, and emails, as well as control music using the Pebble. Now you can get everything from Calendar reminders, to Instagram likes, to new Twitter followers, right on your wrist, should you choose.

Pebble, one of the most successful Kickstarter projects to date, is also one of the first smartwatches to gain any sort of mass adoption. It's on 190,000 wrists across the globe. The device, which looks decidedly more watch-like than many of its its competitors, is supported by a wide network of developers who've been creating apps and watch faces (over 80,000 of the latter) for the product.

And for those folks, Pebble is also releasing its SDK 2.0, which will give apps access to the device's accelerometer, and let them log and store data directly on the watch. Developers can also code cross-platform Pebble apps using Javascript.